Fire collapses roof of home on Kerry Drive in Sixteen Acres; father and two children displaced

Photo courtesy of Dennis Leger/Springfield Fire DepartmentSmoke rises from the scene of a fire at 42 Kerry Dr. in Springfield's Sixteen Acres neighborhood early Friday morning. No one was injured. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.

SPRINGFIELD -- The Springfield Arson & Bomb Squad is trying to determine the cause and origin of a fire that consumed a home at 42 Kerry Dr. early Friday morning.

The blaze was reported at 12:24 a.m. No one was injured.

A father and his two children live in the home -- described as a one-story ranch -- but no one was there at the time.

The father, identified as Ryan Westbrooks, was at work, and the kids were staying with their mother, according to Dennis Leger, aide to Fire Commissioner Joseph Conant.

The fire "was well on its way" when firefighters arrived on the scene, Leger said.

The flames ultimately caused the roof to collapse.

Wires also became detached from the house, landing in the driveway.

Leger said it will take time to determine how and where the fire started.